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August-September 2014 3 De Ar Collectors Make ’Em Happy AU GUST-SEPTEMBER 2014 | No.7 Details Your source for new Canadian stamps GREAT CANADIAN COMEDIANS Inside • Canada Post Community Foundation GET IT EARLY AND YOU’RE LAUGHING M issing out on a great collectible is no joke. That’s why you ought to stand up right now and get your limited edition uncut press sheet of Great Canadian Comedians. We know it’s going to make you smile. Limited quantity Only 7,500 produced P erfect for framing – 9.02 in x 24.25 in / 483 mm x 616 mm On sale August 29 95 See page 5 for more $19 Great Canadian Comedians Great Canadian Comedians stamp products. Uncut press sheet 403949149 From Canada or the U.S. From other countries 1-800-565-4362 902-863-6550 canadapost.ca/shop CONTENTS AU GUST-SEPTEMBER 2014 | No.7 5 Great Canadian Comedians We’ve got an international reputation for our ability to make the world laugh – and the funny people featured in this issue are five good reasons why. P hotos: Martin Short – Courtesy Martin Short; Olivier Guimond – Courtesy Guimond Family; Mike Myers – Edie Baskin; Jim Carrey – Steve Granitz, Getty Images; Catherine O’Hara – Jerry Avenaim Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery; Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me; Austin Powers in Goldmember; Dumb and Dumber; The Mask: TM/MC & © New Line Productions, Inc. Beetlejuice; For Your Consideration: TM/MC & © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. A Mighty Wind: TM/MC & © Castle Rock Entertainment (s14) Ace Ventura: Pet Detective: Courtesy Morgan Creek Productions. 12 Commemorative Envelopes C elebrate the Royal Montreal Regiment’s centennial and the 150 th anniversary of the Charlottetown Conference when our nation was born. 13 Canada Post Community Foundation O ur annual fundraising stamp provides an opportunity for Canadians to change the lives of children with the gift of just a dollar. 14 Royal Canadian Mint Coins Sold at Canada Post C ollectible coins of all kinds for all occasions 244349 DETLS AI Write to Details is published by Canada Post. STAMP SERVICEs – DETAILS Director, Stamp Services: Jim Phillips CANADA POST Director, Marketing and Brand: Nancy Wright 2701 RIVERSIDE DR SUITE N1070 Co-ordinator: Monica Desjardins OTTAWA ON K1A 0B1 CANADA Staff contributors: Joy Parks, Will Manzer Printed in Canada. Translation: Catherine Ego French revision: Marjolaine Morin Proofreading: Christopher Mallory Manager, Graphic Design: Céline Morisset Layout and design: Kim Mallette P ermanent™ is a trademark of Canada Post Corporation. © 2014 Royal Canadian Mint. All rights reserved. CANADAPOST.CA/SHOP DETAILS AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 2014 3 DE AR COLLECTORS Make ’em happy C anadians have a knack for comedy. Perhaps it’s those long cold winters that bring out our gallows humour; maybe it’s our reputed self-depreciation or Country stars just our natural quick wit. Regardless of the reason, get social with Canada has been the birthplace of some of the best- their stamps known comedians in the world. Many of them succeeded in comedy shows like SCTV in Toronto and Saturday Night Live in New York, then took their talents to the big screen. Here we salute five beloved funny people with our issue of Great Canadian Comedians. And once again, we’re pleased to release our semi-postal fundraising stamp for the Canada Post Community Foundation. It allows our customers to spend just one extra dollar to help grassroots organizations for children and youth make a difference in Canadian communities. We hope we can count on your support. Jim Phillips, Director, Stamp Services T he Reverend Jimmie Snow, son of Canadian-born country music legend Hank Snow, unveils the stamp honouring his father, with help from Marcia Longley-Caroppi, local area manager of operations, Canada Post, at the Hank Snow Day celebration, May 9, 2014, in Liverpool, Nova Scotia. EVENTS NOTICE S eptember 27, 2014 S tamp printing specifications Cobourg Stamp Club • Perforations are all 13+ or simulated perforation. 45th Annual Show and Sale – COPEX 2014 • Tagging is on four sides, unless otherwise indicated. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. • Paper is Tullis Russell, unless otherwise indicated. Free admission • Gum type is pressure sensitive, unless otherwise indicated. Salvation Army Citadel 59 Ballantine Street I tems may not be exactly as shown. Cobourg, Ontario K9A 5G8 Si vous n’avez pas reçu cette publication dans la langue officielle de votre choix, veuillez envoyer un courriel à [email protected] ou remplissez le bon de commande et postez-le à notre adresse : EN DÉTAIL POSTES CANADA 2701 PROM RIVERSIDE BUREAU N0020 OTTAWA ON K1A 0B1 CANADA 4 DETAILS AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 2014 CALL TO ORDER 1-800-565-4362 Great comedians work hard G REAT before achieving success. CANADIAN They take chances, learn from failure, and push COMEDIANS boundaries. These are I ssue date: August 29, 2014 things I can relate to as Canadians are funny people – not odd (although a designer. some are), but humorous. And our comedians? Kosta Tsetsekas, Signals Design Group They’re hilarious. Canada is the birthplace of some of entertainment’s most successful comedians by any measure (even for what’s trivial, like the number of times Canadian duo Wayne and Shuster appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show – 67, if you want to know). Our ability to make the world laugh is something we take so seriously, that we teach it. Two colleges, one in Montréal and the other in Toronto, offer post-secondary programs in comedy writing and performance. Comedy is also big business. Montréal’s internationally renowned bilingual festival, Just For Laughs, is a magnet for tourists. Canadian impresario Lorne Michaels’s Saturday Night Live in New York has remained on the air for decades, launching many Canadian comedy careers. For more than 50 years, Toronto’s Second City $425 troupe has been a training ground for generations of S ouvenir sheet comedians – and was where the sketch comedy show 403949145 SCTV began. $925 The funny people honoured in this stamp issue O FDCs (set of 5) are some of the many Canadian comedians who 413949131* Not shown keep us laughing. * Online and mail order only Product Denomination Size Quantity Printing process Booklets of 10 stamps 5 x Permanent™ (domestic rate) 40 mm x 26 mm 300,000 Lithography in 5 colours Official First Day Covers - Mike Myers Permanent™ (domestic rate) 191 mm x 113 mm 16,000 Cancellation site: Toronto ON - Martin Short Permanent™ (domestic rate) 191 mm x 113 mm 14,000 Cancellation site: Hamilton ON - Catherine O’Hara Permanent™ (domestic rate) 191 mm x 113 mm 14,000 Cancellation site: T oronto ON - Olivier Guimond Permanent™ (domestic rate) 191 mm x 113 mm 11,500 Cancellation site: Montréal QC - Jim Carrey Permanent™ (domestic rate) 191 mm x 113 mm 16,000 Cancellation site: Newmarket ON S ouvenir sheet of 5 x Permanent™ (domestic rate) 130 mm x 95 mm 250,000 Lithography in 8 colours 5 stamps ‡ Uncut press sheet of 5 x Permanent™ (domestic rate) 616 mm x 483 mm 7,500 Lithography in 8 colours 4 souvenir sheets ‡ Design: Kosta Tsetsekas, Mike Savage, John Belisle (Signals) | Photos: Courtesy Martin Short; courtesy Guimond Family; Edie Baskin (Myers); S. Granitz, Getty Images (Carrey); Jerry Avenaim (O’Hara) | Printer: Canadian Bank Note | ‡Gum Type: PVA C ANADAPOST.CA/SHOP DETAILS AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 2014 5 I can’t believe it. I am so proud to be Canadian and this honour is more than my little brain from Scarborough, Ontario, can handle. M ike Myers $185 OFDC 413951131 M Y IKE M ERS M ike Myers spent his early years in Scarborough, Myers also created, wrote, produced and starred Ontario, where he learned to love Monty Python and in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Benny Hill from his father. In 1982, Myers began his playing the groovy lead and villainous Dr. Evil. He career – as did so many others – by joining Toronto’s reprised those roles, and played even more charac- Second City ensemble. He was more precocious than ters in the sequels, Austin Powers: The Spy Who his peers, earning an interview on the same day he Shagged Me and Austin Powers in Goldmember. wrote his final high school exam. More recently, Mike Myers was the voice behind From the Second City stage, Myers joined the the titular green ogre in the Shrek movies, and in cast of Saturday Night Live as a featured player and 2013, he made his directorial debut with writer in 1989. There, he created characters such as Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon. Deiter, Lothar of the Hill People and Linda Richman. His Wayne Campbell, along with SNL cast-mate P hotography: Edie Baskin Dana Carvey’s Garth Algar, vaulted the TV sketch to Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery; Austin Powers: the big screen with Wayne’s World in 1992 and its The Spy Who Shagged Me; Austin Powers in Goldmember: TM/MC & © New Line Productions, Inc. 1993 sequel. (s14) 6 DETAILS AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 2014 CALL TO ORDER 1-800-565-4362 M ARTIN SHORT A native of Hamilton, Ontario, Martin Short began performing at a young age, staging imaginary talk shows in his bedroom, complete with music and interviews. Though his interest in show business was evident early on, he completed a degree in social work at McMaster University. In 1977, Short kicked off his comedic career by joining the Toronto Second City troupe. In 1982, he moved to the new show of SCTV, where he created $185 such memorable characters as Jackie Rogers, Jr., OFDC Brock Linehan, Brad Allen, Irving Cohen and Ed 413952131 Grimley. Some of them would reappear later in The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley (1988) and I, Martin Short, Goes Hollywood (1989).
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